1933

The new year found Rosemary and your correspondent briefly in Arizona, where we were entertained royally by two distinguished members of the class of 1933.Jack and Rebecca Huntress introduced us to their luxurious pad in Sunset Valley, a municipality which Jack helped to found and served ten years as mayor. They treated us to lunch, and for dessert brought us to the Scottsdale Sugar Bowl, which Jack started in 1958, where we enjoyed mountainous and luscious sundaes. No longer active in government or sweetmeats, Jack told us that Sunset Valley had no real property tax and a fat unincumbered savings account! Can this be constitutional?

From Phoenix, we traveled up to Carefree, where Jim McFarland, erstwhile AF general and former chief honcho of General Foods, met us at his capacious lean to on East Short Putt Place, where, unfortunately, Shirley languished with a cold. We lunched at the neighboring country club with its brilliant greens, boulder strewn fairways, and majestic views of distant mountain ranges. Jim presided over a stimulating tripartite discussion which ranged from Dartmouth administrative policy (questioning) to archaeology and Hillary's political skills (neutral) to golf (Jim hopes to better his game with a new driver which Shirley gave him for Christmas).

Along with our regular Christmas cards came a doozer from Rick Bradshaw which contained a New York Daily News clipping showing a picture of him and his wife on skis in falling snow. His accompanying note revealed that the couple had discovered at midnight a tremendous snowstorm, had put on their skis and shussed from 48th Street to Child's at 59th, had then skied to "the hill" near the Metropolitan Museum in the 70s, and from there had bummed a tow back down Fifth to their apartment. The girl was Barbara, Rick's first wife, and the occasion was the great blizzard of March 9, 1941.

Back in October we talked briefly with John Shafer, who retired from the family business of processing and selling hardwood in Logansport, Ind., in 1976. He averred that as a Pennsylvania Dutchman he planned to live to 90 or 100.

HYMENEAL NOTE: Cupid invaded the austere halls of Kendal at Hanover last Thanksgiving with the result that Lorrin Riggs and Caroline Cressman, former neighbors, joined forces as husband and wife.

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The New York Daily News showed Rick Bradshaw and his wife on skis in falling snow; the couple had schussed from 48th Street to 59th. John Monagan'33